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Lexicon :: Strong's H1992 - hēm

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הֵם
Transliteration
hēm
Pronunciation
haym
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Part of Speech
third person plural masculine personal pronoun
Root Word (Etymology)
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TWOT Reference: 504

Strong’s Definitions

הֵם hêm, haym; or (prolonged) הֵמָּה hêmmâh; masculine plural from H1931; they (only used when emphatic):—it, like, × (how, so) many (soever, more as) they (be), (the) same, × so, × such, their, them, these, they, those, which, who, whom, withal, ye.


KJV Translation Count — Total: 44x

The KJV translates Strong's H1992 in the following manner: they, them, themselves, these, those, as many more as, ye, same.

KJV Translation Count — Total: 44x
The KJV translates Strong's H1992 in the following manner: they, them, themselves, these, those, as many more as, ye, same.
  1. they, these, the same, who

Strong’s Definitions [?](Strong’s Definitions Legend)
הֵם hêm, haym; or (prolonged) הֵמָּה hêmmâh; masculine plural from H1931; they (only used when emphatic):—it, like, × (how, so) many (soever, more as) they (be), (the) same, × so, × such, their, them, these, they, those, which, who, whom, withal, ye.
STRONGS H1992: Abbreviations
הֵ֫מָּה and הֵם (without appreciable distinction in usage, except probably in so far as the longer or shorter from was better adapted to the rhythm of particular sentences: on the whole הֵמָּה (alone) is somewhat more frequently than הֵם, הָהֵם on the contrary is said regularly, הָהֵמָּה occurring only + 12 times, namely Numbers 9:7 (P), Jeremiah 14:15; Zechariah 14:15, and in the phrase בַּ(הַ)מִָים הָהֵמָּה 2 Kings 18:4; Jeremiah 3:16, 18; Jeremiah 5:18; Jeremiah 50:4; Joel 3:2; Joel 4:1; Zechariah 8:23; Nehemiah 13:15, though בַּיָּמִים הָהֵם is much more common) pronoun 3rd person plural masculine (הֵמָּה used incorrectly for the feminine Zechariah 5:10; Ruth 1:22; Songs 6:8), feminine H2007 הֵ֫נָּה [Late Hebrew also הֵן, which occurs however in Biblical Hebrew only after a prefix: see below 8], pronoun 3 plural they (Biblical Aramaic H1994 הִמּוֺ, which see; هُمْ, هُنً; Ethiopic (one form) እሙንቱ፡ እማንቱ፡ 'emūn-tū, emān-tū; compare also for the dissyllabic form, the suffix —ōmū [feminine —ōn]; perhaps also Assyrian suffix šunu, šina[ni], compare references below הוּא). In usage not different in Genl. from הוּא, הִיא (which see, under the corresponding headings, for fuller explanations), thus: —
1. a. Genesis 6:4; Exodus 5:7 הֵם יֵָֽלְכוּ let them (emphatic) go and gather straw, Numbers 31:16; Isaiah 24:14; Hosea 4:14; Hosea 7:3 etc.; after כִּי Jeremiah 5:5; Jeremiah 34:7. (For the use in circumstantial clauses see Dr§ 160, 169.)
b. Judges 1:22 ויעלו ֗֗֗ גַם הֵם, Deuteronomy 2:11 (אַף הֵם), Deuteronomy 3:20; Joshua 9:4; Ezekiel 30:17.
c. Exodus 18:22 every small matter יִשְׁפְּטוּ־הֵם let them judge themselves, Exodus 18:26; Jeremiah 15:19; Jeremiah 17:18; Psalm 109:28; Esther 9:1.
e. compare Nehemiah 10:38.
2. a. (Resuming the subject with emphasis) Genesis 14:24 (note accents), Deuteronomy 1:39; Psalm 23:4; Psalm 27:2 (accents), Psalm 37:9; Psalm 107:24; Ezekiel 36:7; Ezekiel 44:15.
c. Numbers 14:27a; Jeremiah 27:9; Ezekiel 43:19 אֲשֶׁר הֵם מִזֶּרַע צָדוֺק, Ecclesiastes 4:2; Nehemiah 2:13. **הֵמָּה כִּדְוֵי לַחֻמִי Job 6:7 read perhaps וַהֲמָה וגו׳ (or זָָֽהֲמָה) it is loathesome (√ זהס).
3. a. Genesis 3:7; Exodus 5:8 הֵם נִרְפִּים כִּי for they are idle, Exodus 14:3; Exodus 15:23; Exodus 29:33 etc. (the opposite order rare: Numbers 11:16; Isaiah 61:9, compare DePs 94:11).
b. Genesis 34:21, 23; Genesis 41:26; Genesis 48:5 שׁני בניך ֗֗֗ לִי הֵם thy two sons..., they are mine, Exodus 32:16 + often: Isaiah 41:22 הָרִאשֹׁנוֺת מָה הֵנָּה, Isaiah 49:21 אֵלֶּה אֵיפֹה הֵם these — where were they? Zephaniah 2:12 after אַתֶּם, peculiarly (compare Dr§ 198 Obs. 2).
c. Deuteronomy 20:15 אֲשֶׁר לֹאמֵֿעָרֵי הַגֹּויִם הָאֵלֶּה הֵנָּה, Judges 19:12; 1 Kings 9:20.
d. 2 Kings 7:10 כַּאֲשֶׁר הֵמָּה. (Proverbs 19:7 Kt לֹאהֵֿמָּה is probably corrupt: see Commentaries)
4. a. Proverbs 30:24 אַרְבָּעָה הֵם קְטַנֵּיאָֿ֑רֶץ four things are they, the little ones of the earth, Proverbs 30:29 (compare before a rel. clause Proverbs 30:15; Proverbs 30:18; Proverbs 6:16) Songs 6:8; Isaiah 51:19 שְׁתַּיִם הֵנָּה קֹרְאֹתַיִךְ, 1 Chronicles 9:26 (see הוא 4a).
b. (β) Genesis 21:29 מָה הֵנָּה שֶׁבַע ֗֗֗ literally What are they — these seven sheep? Zechariah 1:9; Zechariah 4:5.
(γ) אֵלֶּה ֗֗֗ הֵםGenesis 25:16 (= 1 Chronicles 1:36) Leviticus 23:2; Numbers 3:20, 21, 27, 33; 1 Samuel 4:8; 1 Chronicles 8:6; 1 Chronicles 12:15 (see Dr § 201, 3).
6. a. In a neuter sense (rare), Job 6:7 הֵמָּה כִּדְוֵי לַחמִי they (i.e. such sufferings as mine) are as loathsomeness in my meat, Jeremiah 7:4 הֵיכַל י׳ הֵמָּה they (i.e. these buildings) are the temple of י׳; and in the feminine, Leviticus 5:22 of all that a man doeth to sin בָּהֵנָּה therein, 1 Chronicles 21:10 מֵהֵנָּה (|| 2 Samuel 24:12 מֵהֶם); 2 Samuel 12:8; Job 23:14 כָּהֵנָּה things such as these.
7. With article. הָהֵם, Genesis 6:4; Exodus 2:11; Numbers 14:38 + often; הָהֵמָּה + 12 times (see above); הָהֵנָּה1 Samuel 17:28. N.B. — Ezekiel 8:6 Kt מָהֵם stands for מָה הֵם (so Qr), compare מַזֶּה for מַהזֶּֿה Exodus 4:2; 2 Kings 9:18 עַדהֵֿם is irregular for עֲדֵיהֶם; 2 Samuel 4:6 וְהֵנָּה וג׳ is textual error for וְהִנֵּה שֹׁעֶרֶת הַבַּיִת סֹקְלָה חִטִּים וג׳ see We Dr (Greek Version of the LXX & RVm).
8. With prepositions (in lieu of the normal, and more usual, forms with suffixes בָּהֶם, לָהֶם, מֵהֶם etc. [כָּהֶם & כָּהֶן, however, each once only, כְּמוֺהֶם thrice: see כְּ]) —
a. בָּהֵמָּהExodus 30:4; Exodus 36:1 (both P), Habakkuk 1:16; כָּהֵמָּהJeremiah 36:32; לְהֵמָּהJeremiah 14:16 מֵהֵמָּהJeremiah 10:2; Ecclesiastes 12:12.
b. כָּהֵם2 Samuel 24:3 Yahweh add to the people כָּהֵם וְכָהֵם מֵאָה פְעָמִים the like of themselves and the like of themselves 100 times, = 1 Chronicles 21:3 (but כָּהֵם here only once, compare Deuteronomy 1:11 בָּכֶם), 2 Chronicles 9:11; Ecclesiastes 9:12.
c. בָּהֵנָּהLeviticus 5:22 [Leviticus 6:3] (P) Numbers 13:19 (JE) Jeremiah 5:17: כָּהֵנָּהGenesis 41:19; 2 Samuel 12:8 וְאֹסִפָה לְךָ כָּהֵנָּה וְכָהֵנָּה, Job 23:14: לָהֵנָּהEzekiel 1:5, 23 (twice in verse); Ezekiel 42:9; Zechariah 5:9: מֵהֵנָּהLeviticus 4:2 (P) Isaiah 34:16; Jeremiah 5:6; Ezekiel 16:51; Ezekiel 42:5; Psalm 34:21; 1 Chronicles 21:10 (|| 2 Samuel 24:12 מֵהֶם).
d. H2004 בָּהֵןGenesis 19:29 (P) Genesis 30:26, 37; Exodus 25:29; Exodus 37:16 (both P) Leviticus 10:1; Leviticus 11:21; Leviticus 14:40; Numbers 10:3; Numbers 16:7 (all P) Deuteronomy 28:52; Jeremiah 4:29; Jeremiah 48:9; Jeremiah 51:43 (twice in verse) (בָּהֶן thrice only); כָּהֵןEzekiel 18:14 (editions; Baer כָּהֶן); H3860 H3861 לָהֵן (=therefore) † Ruth 1:13 (twice in verse) (also Biblical Aramaic); מֵהֵןEzekiel 16:47, 52 (editions; Baer מֵהֶן). (With the exception of כָּחֵנָּה, these forms are found mostly in P and writers not earlier than Jeremiah; b and d, however, depend solely on the punctuation.)
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BLB Scripture Index of Brown-Driver-Briggs

Genesis

3:7; 6:4; 6:4; 14:24; 19:29; 21:29; 25:16; 30:26; 30:37; 33:6; 34:21; 34:23; 41:19; 41:26; 44:3; 48:5

Exodus

2:11; 4:2; 5:7; 5:8; 14:3; 15:23; 18:22; 18:26; 25:29; 29:33; 30:4; 32:16; 36:1; 37:16

Leviticus

4:2; 6:3; 10:1; 11:21; 14:40; 23:2

Numbers

3:20; 3:21; 3:27; 3:33; 9:7; 10:3; 11:16; 13:19; 14:27; 14:38; 16:7; 31:16

Deuteronomy

1:11; 1:39; 2:11; 3:20; 20:15; 28:52

Joshua

9:4

Judges

1:22; 6:5; 19:12

Ruth

1:13; 1:22

1 Samuel

4:8; 17:28

2 Samuel

4:6; 12:8; 12:8; 24:3; 24:12; 24:12

1 Kings

9:20

2 Kings

7:10; 9:18; 18:4

1 Chronicles

1:36; 8:6; 9:26; 12:15; 21:3; 21:10; 21:10

2 Chronicles

9:11

Nehemiah

2:13; 10:38; 13:15

Esther

9:1

Job

6:7; 6:7; 23:14; 23:14

Psalms

23:4; 27:2; 34:21; 37:9; 94:11; 107:24; 109:28

Proverbs

6:16; 19:7; 30:15; 30:18; 30:24; 30:29

Ecclesiastes

4:2; 9:12; 12:12

Song of Songs

6:8; 6:8

Isaiah

24:14; 30:7; 34:16; 41:22; 44:11; 49:21; 51:19; 61:9

Jeremiah

3:16; 3:18; 4:29; 5:5; 5:6; 5:17; 5:18; 7:4; 10:2; 14:15; 14:16; 15:19; 17:18; 27:9; 34:7; 36:32; 48:9; 50:4; 51:43

Ezekiel

1:5; 1:23; 8:6; 16:47; 16:51; 16:52; 18:14; 27:13; 27:17; 27:21; 30:17; 36:7; 42:5; 42:9; 43:19; 44:15

Hosea

4:14; 7:3

Joel

3:2

Habakkuk

1:16

Zephaniah

2:12

Zechariah

1:9; 4:5; 5:9; 5:10; 8:23; 14:15

H1992

Word / Phrase / Strong's Search

Strong's Number H1992 matches the Hebrew הֵם (hēm),
which occurs 77 times in 65 verses in 'Jer' in the WLC Hebrew.

Page 1 / 2 (Jer 2:11–Jer 31:33)

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:11 -

“Has a nation changed gods

Though they were not gods?

But My people have changed their glory

For that which does not profit.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 2:26 -

“As the thief is shamed when he is found,

So the house of Israel is shamed;

They, their kings, their princes,

And their priests and their prophets,

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:16 - “It shall be in those H1992 days when you are multiplied and fruitful in the land,” declares Yahweh, “they will no longer say, ‘The ark of the covenant of Yahweh.’ And it will not come upon the heart, nor will they remember it, nor will they miss it, nor will it be made again.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 3:18 - “In those H1992 days the house of Judah will walk with the house of Israel, and they will come together from the land of the north to the land that I gave your fathers as an inheritance.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 4:22 -

“For My people are ignorant fools,

They know Me not;

They are simpleminded children

And have no understanding.

They are wise to do evil,

But to do good they do not know.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:4 -

Then I said, “They are only the poor;

They are foolish;

For they do not know the way of Yahweh

Or the legal judgment of their God.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:5 -

“Let me go to the great

And let me speak to them,

For they know the way of Yahweh

And the legal judgment of their God.”

But they too, altogether, have broken the yoke

And torn apart the bonds.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:10 -

“Go up through her vine rows and make them a ruin,

But do not make a complete destruction;

Remove her branches,

For they are not Yahweh’s.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 5:18 -

“Yet even in those H1992 days,” declares Yahweh, “I will not make you a complete destruction.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 6:28 -

All of them are rebelliously stubborn,

Going about as a slanderer.

They are bronze and iron;

They, all of them, are corrupt.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:4 - “Do not trust in lying words, saying, ‘[fn]This H1992 is the temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh, the temple of Yahweh.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:17 - “Are you not seeing what they are doing in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem?
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 7:19 - “Do they provoke Me?” declares Yahweh. “Is it not themselves they provoke to the shame of their own face?”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 9:16 - “I will scatter them among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known; and I will send the sword after them until I have consumed them.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:2 - Thus says Yahweh,

“Do not learn the way of the nations,

And do not be terrified by the signs of the heavens

Although the nations are terrified by them;

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:5 -

“Like a scarecrow in a cucumber field are they,

And they cannot speak;

They must be carried

Because they cannot take a step!

Do not fear them,

For they can do no harm,

Nor can they do any good.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 10:15 -

They are vanity, a work of mockery;

In the time of their punishment they will perish.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:10 - “They have turned back to the iniquities of their [fn]ancestors who refused to hear My words, and they have walked after other gods to serve them; the house of Israel and the house of Judah have broken My covenant which I cut with their fathers.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:12 - “Then the cities of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem will go and cry to the gods to whom they burn incense, but they surely will not save them in the time of their calamity.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 11:20 -

But, O Yahweh of hosts, who judges righteously,

Who tests the [fn]insides and the heart,

Let me see Your vengeance on them,

For to You have I revealed my case.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 12:6 -

“For even your brothers and the household of your father,

Even they have dealt treacherously with you,

Even they have called aloud after you.

Do not believe them, although they may say nice things to you.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:14 - Then Yahweh said to me, “The prophets are prophesying lies in My name. I have neither sent them nor commanded them nor spoken to them; they are prophesying to you a vision of lies, divination, futility, and the deception of their own hearts.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:15 - “Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning the prophets who are prophesying in My name, although it was not I who sent them—yet they keep saying, ‘There will be no sword or famine in this land’—by that sword and famine those H1992 prophets shall [fn]meet their end!
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 14:16 - “The people also to whom they are prophesying will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem because of the famine and the sword; and there will be no one to bury them—neither them, nor their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters—for I will pour out their own evil on them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 15:19 -

Therefore thus says Yahweh,

“If you return, then I will cause you to return

Before Me you will stand;

And if you extract the precious from the worthless,

You will become [fn]My mouthpiece.

They for their part H1992 may turn to you,

But as for you, you must not turn to them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 16:20 -

Can man make gods for himself?

Yet they are not gods!

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:15 -

Behold, they keep saying to me,

“Where is the word of Yahweh?

Let it come now!”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:18 -

Let those who pursue me be put to shame, but as for me, let me not be put to shame;

Let them be dismayed, but let me not be dismayed.

Bring on them a day of calamity,

And [fn]crush them with twofold [fn]crushing!

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 17:25 - then there will come in through the gates of this city kings and princes [fn]sitting on the throne of David, riding in chariots and on horses, they and their princes, the men of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and this city will be inhabited forever.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 18:20 -

Should good be repaid with evil?

For they have dug a pit for [fn]me.

Remember how I stood before You

To speak good on their behalf,

So as to turn away Your wrath from them.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 19:4 - “Because they have forsaken Me and have made this a foreign place and have burned incense in it to other gods, that neither they nor their fathers nor the kings of Judah had ever known, and because they have filled this place with the blood of the innocent
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 20:12 -

Yet, O Yahweh of hosts, You who test the righteous,

Who see the [fn]mind and the heart;

Let me see Your vengeance on them,

For to You I have revealed my cause.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 22:27 - “But as for the land to which their soul desires to return, they will not return to it.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:16 -

Thus says Yahweh of hosts,

“Do not listen to the words of the prophets who are prophesying to you.

They are leading you into vanity;

They speak a vision of their own heart,

Not from the mouth of Yahweh.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 23:21 -

“I did not send these prophets,

But they ran.

I did not speak to them,

But they prophesied.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:10 - ‘Moreover, I will [fn]make the voice of joy and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones and the light of the lamp, to perish from them.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 25:14 - ‘—[fn]For many nations and great kings will make slaves of them, even them; and I will repay them according to their deeds and according to the work of their hands—’”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:9 - “But as for you, do not listen to your prophets, your diviners, your [fn]dreamers, your soothsayers, or your sorcerers who speak to you, saying, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon.’
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:10 - “For they prophesy a lie to you in order to remove you far from your land; and I will banish you, and you will perish.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:14 - “So do not listen to the words of the prophets who speak to you, saying, ‘You will not serve the king of Babylon,’ for they prophesy a lie to you;
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:15 - for I have not sent them,” declares Yahweh, “but they prophesy a lie in My name, in order that I may banish you and that you may perish, you and the prophets who prophesy to you.”
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:16 -

Then I spoke to the priests and to all this people, saying, “Thus says Yahweh: Do not listen to the words of your prophets who prophesy to you, saying, ‘Behold, the vessels of the house of Yahweh will now shortly be returned from Babylon’; for they are prophesying a lie to you.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 27:18 - “But if they are prophets, and if the word of Yahweh is with them, let them now intercede with Yahweh of hosts that the vessels which are left in the house of Yahweh, in the house of the king of Judah, and in Jerusalem may not go to Babylon.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:9 - ‘For they prophesy a lie to you in My name; I have not sent them,’ declares Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 29:22 - ‘And because of them a curse will be [fn]used by all the exiles from Judah who are in Babylon, saying, “May Yahweh make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, whom the king of Babylon roasted in the fire
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 30:19 -

‘From them will come forth thanksgiving

And the voice of those who [fn]celebrate;

And I will multiply them, and they will not decrease;

I will also honor them, and they will not be insignificant.

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:1 -

“At that time,” declares Yahweh, “I will be the God of all the families of Israel, and they shall be My people.”

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:29 -

“In those H1992 days they will not say again,

‘The fathers have eaten sour grapes,

And the children’s teeth are [fn]set on edge.’

Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:32 - not like the covenant which I cut with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, but I was a husband to them,” declares Yahweh.
Unchecked Copy BoxJer 31:33 - “But this is the covenant which I will cut with the house of Israel after those H1992 days,” declares Yahweh: “I will put My law within them, and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.

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